There are lots of moving parts to keep track of with federal grant management, so I wanted to make it easier for you to find all my favorite tips from my book Decoding Grant Management – The Ultimate Success Guide to the Federal Grant Regulations in 2 CFR Part 200. Here are seven of my most […]
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Three Favorite FAQs For Indirect Costs
In my last article, I posed the question “Do the Uniform Guidance FAQs Really Matter?” As promised, in this second part of the three part series, I’m going to do a deep dive into the world of indirect costs and some of the “unintended consequences” that surfaced in the latest FAQs from OMB. Indirect costs […]
Do the Uniform Guidance FAQs Really Matter?
It’s an all too familiar dilemma. How do you sort through the pages and pages of grant updates, FAQ’s, White Papers and Webinars and still have time to do your “regular” work. I can relate to this feeling of overwhelm about the job of a grant professional in this day and age where the grant […]
Decoding Grant Management-Success Tip: Record Retention
Are you facing the “Goldilocks Dilemma” of record retention? Is your record retention too much? Not enough? Or just right? Wondering which records to keep for your federal grant record-retention requirements and which ones can be tossed? (Inadequate supporting documentation is an area that gets many federal grant recipients into trouble.) Lets walk through the […]
Three Secrets Grant Writers Need to Know About Grant Management
I was recently leading grant management training in Jackson Mississippi and was pleasantly surprised to have some people in the room who are involved with proposal development for federal awards. Now it wasn’t just professional courtesy that made me so happy to see them, but because there are some changes baked into the new grant […]
7 Top Grant Management Articles for 2016
Do you ever wish you could get a do-over? 7 Top Grant Management I love the benefit of hindsight and this New Year’s holiday is no different. During the last week, I’ve been reflecting what articles I shared on the MyFedTrainer.com blog have had the most impact on our community. (One of the ways I […]